Monday, 29 April 2013

Much Sunday morning spluttering of cornflakes, courtesy of the Telegraph's business section.In an interview Martin Griffiths, the soon to be Stagecoach supremo, offered the following terse observations on the railway:HS2 - 'in the wrong place'.Waterloo throat - 'knackered'Railways - 'a middle class thing'.Whilst items one and two will no doubt be causing palpitations in Whitehall, item three should at least endear Stagecoach to ministers.After all it is only nineteen months since millionaire Philip Hammond, then Secretary of State for Transport, decreed that trains were 'a rich man's toy'!Good to see that the Deep Alliance is at least delivering a marginally more inclusive railway...